What do you get when you mix an investigative journalist from a politically conservative media site with January 6, 2021, and gun rights?
Answer: You get another excuse for a judge to strip an American of their rights under unproven pretenses to make that journalist a target because the journalist doesn’t push the narrative that the current administration favors.
Or, at least, that’s what it looks like to me, and, maybe, it will look the same way to you, too. You be the judge. Dave Urbanski writes,
The federal government denied Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker’s pretrial request to lift a gun possession restriction on him over Baker’s “alleged threatening statements” at “public officials” on January 6.
Washington, D.C., federal Judge Christopher R. Cooper’s minute order said Baker’s Pretrial Services officers cited “safety concerns” in regard to Baker possessing a gun — and Cooper added that such concerns are “heightened” due to Baker’s “alleged threatening statements directed at specific public officials during the riot on January 6, 2021,” which Baker covered that day as an independent journalist.
Cooper also denied Baker’s motion to lift a requirement that he notify Pretrial Services before entering Washington, D.C., “given the gravity of his purported misconduct inside the Capitol on January 6, which was allegedly targeted at high-ranking federal lawmakers.”
Now, to give you context as to the “gravity” of Baker’s alleged crimes, he has been charged with four non-violent misdemeanor charges by the Justice Department in connection with reporting on January 6, 2021.
Yes, four non-violent misdemeanors. That’s not a typo.
But, apparently, four non-violent, borderline non-crimes that he is being charged with (after all, they aren’t felonies) are enough for the judge to strip Baker of his Second Amendment right to be able to defend himself?
Yes, that’s what they’re saying.
Sounds rather fishy, don’t you think? In fact, doesn’t it reek of lawfare to you on the part of Joe Biden’s Justice Department, an attempt to use the courts to punish a political opponent?
Yes, yes, it does. And this kind of evil use of the court system is one of the many reasons that we need to work to get good, liberty-minded, gun-rights-supporting people into office all over this county and at the Federal level. We need people in office who will work to return this country to its founding ideals. Because that actually helps everyone, whether they think it will or not.